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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't see any difference in outcome between the two groups in the end.

Savvy parents who understand "narrative" can help their kids. I did it in reverse. Let them live their lives, and organize it into a "story" summer before senior year.  Two at T10 school[/quote]

With this approach (and I applaud you), don’t you take the risk of having holes in your narrative that you can’t turn back time to fill if you’re missing some essential courses or activities? [/quote]

Two things:

- Activities and courses dont matter as much as you think, IMO. You need to triangulate on a niche area that's, hopefully, of actual interest to the kid. So horses and medicine. This is not uncommon. The white girl who did [b]horseback riding[/b] and is interested in pre-med. Hard. So you need to triangulate on something more niche. Non verbal communication? Interesting. I'm sure AI could tell you a lot about this, and you could find a place junior year summer to work, either with therapeutic riding (not uncommon) or with non verbal kids (interesting!). Then maybe you switch from pre-med to linguistics. And then talk about other animals?  Write an essay for John Locke competition. Horseback riding plus work with non-verbal kids plus essay competition = this is a good story.  Or horseback riding and physics! Start with movement. Super interesting too. 
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Like your approach but could you illustrate it using something less fancy?  No everyone could afford expensive activities like this.[/quote]

give me a major of interest and one or two things they did in high school. 
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Mine is done so let's work on the most common high school activities: varsity and debate.  
My point is to have a good story you almost always have to have some uncommon activities first.
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I'm the other poster, with 2 kids who've gone through the process (3rd going through soon).

Debate is tough - its worse if kid is asian. Its just so stereotypical. I'd aim for ILR at Cornell. [/quote]

I have to disagree here.  It's anecdata, but the best debaters at my kids' affluent suburban high school last year went to Harvard, Stanford and Northwestern and all three are Asian American.  I don't think it's stereotypical - math team and robotics are stereotypically dominated by Asian Americans.

- An Asian American parent[/quote]

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